Last updated on August 29th, 2023 at 04:01 pm
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the 7 principles of gardening, which will help you create a beautiful and productive garden.
The seven principles of gardening are important to follow if you want to create a beautiful and productive garden. These principles will help you plan and design your garden, choose the right plants, and care for your plants properly.
The art of landscape gardening has been around for centuries. Designing and creating landscapes that are both pleasing to the eye and functional in the process. Different aspects of landscape gardening include choosing the right plants and designing a layout that works well for your space. No matter your level of experience, there is always something new to learn about landscape gardening.
The 12 Principles of Gardening:-
1. Axis:
Around which the garden is created, this is an imaginary line in any garden. The central line is the axis in the case of a formal garden. There is usually a focal point, such as a birdbath, at the end of an axis.
2. Focal point:
In every garden, there is a center of attraction and architectural features that are focused on as a point of interest.
3. Mass effect:
Using one type of plant in large numbers in one area creates a mass effect. Arrangements of such mass do not become monotonous.
4. Space:
Its actual size should be the only thing limiting a garden. One way to achieve this is to keep vast open spaces, preferably under the lawn, and to restrict the periphery plantings, usually avoiding any planting in the center.
A tree should be chosen for planting in the center of any planting that has to be done, one with branches that are high up on the trunk or with lower branches that have been removed, not a bushy shrub. Planting in this way will not obstruct the view or make the garden smaller. Paths in a garden can gradually be narrowed to create more space.
5. Proportion and scale:
The proportion in a garden is the relationship between the different masses in the garden. A rectangle with a ratio of 5:8 is considered to have pleasing proportions. The design becomes undesirable as this ratio comes down, because the forms look neither square nor rectangle.
6. Style:
According to budget, test, and site nature, every garden lover has to invent his own gardening style. Only when a man studies all the vast garden styles of the world carefully and follows their principles can he develop his own design.
7. Texture:
A garden’s surface character is called its texture. The overall effect of the ground is determined by the texture of the ground, the leaves of a tree, or the shrub. If establishing a lawn is out of the question, the rugged-to-looking ground texture can be improved by laying small pebbles from the river beds.
